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Why it matters
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic back a shared AI scraping opt-out
The Verge AI The biggest names in AI are backing a new way to opt out of scraping
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic said they will adopt a standard that lets publishers set AI training preferences once for multiple companies.
Why it matters
If you run a website or publish content, one setting can now tell several major AI companies not to use your work for training.
Latest brief · Oct 31, 2026